THE SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE OF PERSONAL AFFIRMATION

There is a powerful discipline that has an amazing affect upon our lives when it is done sincerely, spoken with conviction and with a believing heart. This discipline is called Positive Confession or Personal Affirmation. This spiritual discipline is done by simply taking Gods Word (His promises) and personalizing them to your own life with spoken words. You are verbalizing the identical things about yourself that God has promised. When that happens there is an amazing transformation that begins to happen to you spirit, soul and body! Some Of The Benefits Are 1. Your heart will begin to change and conform to Gods Wordso even when you dont believe the things you are saying at first, just keep saying them fervently and God will use your words to transform your heart! (James 3:3-5) 2. You become completely yielded to Gods Spirit (Eph 5:14-20) 3. There is spiritual power that specifically flows through words spoken (Jn 6:63) 4. The force of faith (the substance of your heart) is a by-product of words spoken (Rom 1:17) 5. Faith can only be released toward God by the things you say or synchronized actions (Mark 11:23; James 2:28) 6. Your words carry the spiritual virtue to literally change your circumstances (Mark 11:22-24) 7. Death and life are communicated through spoken words (Pro 18:21) Ways to Be Efficient In the Discipline 1. Stop all corrupt communication (unbelief, fear, strife, etc.). Refuse to talk unbelief! a. Get an accountability partner (Spouse, friend, etc) b. When you catch yourself speaking/believing contrary to Gods Word immediately correct it out loud by declaring Gods promises. 2. Become intentional about Personal Affirmation a. Schedule it to be apart of your daily exercises b. Locate written affirmation tools that others have written/use c. Write out New Testament verses in first person d. While you are reading the Bible stop and engage the discipline e. Take your thoughts captive by countering them with spoken affirmation 3. Sing to yourself a new song that articulates Gods promise 4. With a heart of praise shout unto God with a voice of triumph and thanksgiving Using This Tool On the following pages are several Scriptures that are put into first person context to support you in personal affirmations. This list is way short of exhausting all the Scriptural topics that we could cover. We believe this is a great tool piece to develop a believer so they can explore all the possibilties that may be under topics not covered. The topic headings in this tool are 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. To Defeat Worry and Fear (Page 2) For Addictive/Compulsive Behaviors (Page 3) For Material Needs (Page 3) For Wisdom and Guidance (Page 3) For Comfort and Strength (Page 4)

GODS CREATIVE POWER THROUGH SPEAKING SCRIPTURES To DEFEAT WORRY AND FEAR: I am the body of Christ and Satan hath no power over me. For I overcome evil with good. (I Corinthians 12:27; Romans 12:21) I am of God and have overcome him (satan). For greater is He that is in me, than he that is in the world. (I John 4:4) I will fear no evil for thou art with me Lord, Your Word and Your Spirit they comfort me. (Psalm 23:4) I am far from oppression and fear does not come nigh me. (Isaiah 54:14) No weapon formed against me shall prosper, for my righteousness is of the Lord. But whatever I do will prosper for Im like a tree thats planted by the rivers of water (Isaiah 54;17; Psalm 1:3) I am delivered from the evils of this present world for it is the will of God. (Galatians 1:4) No evil will befall me neither shall any plague come nigh my dwelling. For the Lord has given His angels charge over me and they keep me in all my ways, and in my pathway is life and there is no death. (Psalm 91:10-11; Proverbs 12:28) I am a doer of the Word of God and am blessed in my deeds. I am happy in those things which I do because I am a doer of the Word of God. (James 1:22) I take the shield of faith and I quench every fiery dart that the wicked one brings against me. (Ephesians 6:16) Christ has redeemed me from the curse of the law. Therefore, I forbid any sickness or disease to come upon this body. Every disease germ and every virus that touches this body dies instantly in the name of Jesus. Every organ and every tissue of this body functions in the perfection to which God created it to function, and I forbid any malfunction in this body, in the name of Jesus. (Galatians 3:13; Romans 8:11; Genesis 1:31; Matthew 16:19) I am an overcomer and I overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of my testimony. (Revelation 12:11) I am submitted to God and the devil flees from me because I resist him in the name of Jesus. (James 4:7) The Word of God is forever settled in heaven. Therefore, I establish His Word upon this earth. (Psalm 119:89) Great is the peace of my children for they are taught of the Lord. (Isaiah 54:13)

FOR ADDICTIVE/COMPULSIVE DESIRES THAT DISOBEY GOD I desire to fully obey God. My heart is being transformed and my desires are fully after Him. I present my body to God, my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit Who dwells in me. I am not my own, I am bought with a price therefore, in the name of Jesus I refuse ________ . I live in the grace of God to resist temptation and have desire to overcome. Body, settle down in Jesus name and conform to the Word of God. I mortify the desires of this body and command it to come in line with the Word of God. (Psalm 37:4-5; Romans 12:1; 1 Corinthians 6:19) FOR MATERIAL NEEDS: Christ has redeemed me from the curse of the law. Christ has redeemed me from poverty, Christ has redeemed me from sickness, Christ has redeemed me from spiritual death. (Galatians 3:13; Deuteronomy 28) For poverty He has given me wealth, for sickness He has given me health, for death He has given me eternal life. (II Corinthians 8:9; Isaiah 53:5-6; John 10:10; John 5:24) It is true unto me according to the Word of God. (Psalm 119:25) I delight myself in the Lord and He gives me the desires of my heart. (Psalm 37:4) I have given and it is given unto me good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, men give unto my bosom. (Luke 6:38) With what measure I mete, it is measured unto me. I sow bountifully, therefore I reap bountifully. I give cheerfully, and My God has made all grace abound toward me and I have all sufficiency of all things, do abound to all good works (II Corinthians 9:6-8) There is no lack for my God supplieth all of my need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:19) The Lord is my shepherd and I DO NOT WANT because Jesus was made poor, that I through His poverty might have abundance. For He came that I might have life and have it more abundantly. (Psalm 23:1; II Corinthians 8:9; John 10:10) And I, having received the gift of righteousness do reign as a king in life by Jesus Christ. (Romans 5:17) The Lord has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant, and Abrahams blessings are mine. (Psalm 35:27; Galatians 3:14) FOR WISDOM AND GUIDANCE: The Spirit of truth abideth in me and teaches me all things, and He guides me into all truths. Therefore I confess I have perfect knowledge of every situation and every circumstance that I come up against. For I have the wisdom of God. (John 16:13; James 1:5) I trust in the Lord with all my heart, and I lean not unto my own understanding. (Proverbs 3:5) In all my ways I acknowledge Him and He directs my path. (Proverbs 3:6) 3

The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me. (Psalm 138:8) I let the Word of Christ dwell in me richly in all wisdom. (Colossians 3:16) I do follow the good shepherd and I know His voice and the voice of a stranger I will not follow. (John 10:4-5) Jesus is made unto me wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption. Therefore I confess I have the wisdom of God, and I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. (I Corinthians 1:30; II Corinthians 5:21) I am filled with the knowledge of the Lords will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. (Colossians 1:9) I am a new creation in Christ, I am His workmanship created in Christ Jesus. Therefore I have the mind of Christ and the wisdom of God is formed within me. (II Corinthians 5:17; Ephesians 2:10; I Corinthians 2:16) I have put off the old man and have put on the new man, which is renewed in the knowledge after the image of Him that created me. (Colossians 3:10) I receive the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of my understanding being enlightened. And I am not conformed to this world, but am transformed by the renewing of my mind. My mind is renewed by the Word of God. (Ephesians 1:17-18; Romans 12:2) FOR COMFORT AND STRENGTH I am increasing in the knowledge of God. I am strengthened with all might according to His glorious power. (Colossians 1:10-11) I am delivered from the power of darkness and I am translated into the kingdom of His dear Son. (Colossians 1:13) I am born of God and I have world overcoming faith residing on the inside of me. For greater is He that is in me, than he that is in the world. (I John 5:4-5; I John 4:4) I will do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. (Philippians 4:13) The joy of the Lord is my strength. The Lord is the strength of my life. (Nehemiah 8:10; Psalm 27:1) The peace of God which passeth all understanding keeps my heart and my mind through Christ Jesus. And things which are good, and pure, and perfect, and lovely, and of good report, I think on these things. (Philippians 4:7-8) I let no corrupt communication proceed out of my mouth, but that which is good to edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearer. I grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby Im sealed unto the day of redemption. (Ephesians 4:29) I speak the truth of the word of God in love and I grow up into the Lord Jesus Christ in all things. (Ephesians 4:15) 4

No man shall take me out of His hand, for I have eternal life. (John 10:29) I let the peace of God rule in my heart and I refuse to worry about anything. (Colossians 3:15) I will not let the Word of God depart from before my eyes for it is life to me for I have found it, and it is health and healing got all my flesh. (Proverbs 4:21-22) God is on my side. God is in me now, who can be against me? He has given unto me all things that pertain unto life and godliness. Therefore I am a partaker of His divine nature. (II Corinthians 6:16; John 10:10; II Peter 1:3-4; Romans 8:31) I am a believer and these signs do follow me. In the name of Jesus I cast out demons, I speak with new tongues, I lay hands on the sick and they do recover. (Mark 16:17-18) Jesus gave me the authority to use His Name. And that which I bind on earth is bound in heaven. And that which I loose on earth is loosed in heaven. Therefore in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I bind the principalities, the powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world. I bind and cast down spiritual wickedness in high places and render them harmless and ineffective against me in the Name of Jesus. (Matthew 16:19; John 16:23-24; Ephesians 6:12) I am complete in Him who is the head of all principality and power. For I am His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God has before ordained that I should walk therein. (Colossians 2;10; Ephesians 2:10)